n. A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
n. The testicles.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In biology, a germ-gland; a germinal or reproductive gland or organ, in the widest sense, producing sperm-cells or egg-cells; an ovary or a spermary, of whatever kind, in a primitive or an indifferent state.
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n. a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced
Word Usage
"The recent election results have shown that the Democrats, while they still haven’t grown themselves a pair, do at least seem to have gained ONE gonad, which is better than the NONE they had before."